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No job and cold weather means website gets attention. In addition to new yearbook covers in the last post, some pages that were part of the old website (pre-2017) have been restored. The Yearbook Dedications, Ontario High School, Wayne Middle School, and Walworth School pages have been brought back to life. The Contact page has also been fixed (sorry, I did not know it was broken). I visited the Internet Archive (I can’t believe this exists), and was looking at the site from 2016 and earlier. I put so many hours into getting it working just the way I wanted back then. Despite the fact I will probably regret it, I made some tweaks were made to the styles, as there were some things I wasn’t happy with on the current site. There could be a few issues I haven’t found yet. Though using WordPress has made many things easier, they hook you in for free, and then everyone wants to charge you monthly to get the “premium” features, which conveniently include things everyone wants/needs.

By the way, don’t be alarmed by the “not secure” warning in your browser when visiting this site. We aren’t doing any financial transactions here, so it’s not an issue. To get that removed, it will cost another couple hundred a year. I don’t think it is justified.

Finally managed to get a 1950 Wayne Eagle yearbook cover image. Not that I had to look far, but it is nice to always have a camera in your pocket. By the way, this was the very first Wayne Eagle yearbook.

The Wayne Basketball History website has finally been updated to look less antiquated. A few teams have been updated with info, and hopefully more to come as time permits.

Here is where to find it:

http://waynealumni.org/basketball/

A Natural History of Lake Ontario

As headlines of deadly heat waves and extreme weather around the nation abound, Lake Ontario’s moderating influences on our temperatures has never been more apparent. The lake’s many gifts to us include our diversified high value fruit growing region, a major recreational fishery and some of the best sailing and cruising waters in the northeast. And yet says the author, “It remains over looked and under appreciated so I felt a need to write this book.” Gateley, who now resides in Fair Haven, has spent decades exploring the lake afloat with her various boats and its shorelines on foot. She says, “Lake Ontario is an international body of water that has played a key role in the history of two nations. Its coastal landscape is one of the most dynamic areas anywhere in upstate NY. It is a place of constant change shaped by water and wind.” Her new book will help beachcombers seek out fossils, lucky rocks, and water rounded quartz crystals among the shore’s varied pebbles. Some of the colorful beach pebbles here were transported by the glacier from the Canadian Shield, home to outcrops of the oldest surface rock on the continent. Gateley also documents some of the many changes that have occurred in the last few decades to Lake Ontario and its fisheries. Over fifty black and white photos and descriptions detail the interactions of native and recent immigrant animals and plants that now call this Great Lake home. Despite pollution and on going deforestation and development, the lake retains much resilience, and native birds and animals like the osprey and lake sturgeon are making a comeback here.Susan Peterson Gateley has written on Lake Ontario topics for more than thirty years covering everything from midge hatches and classic wooden boats to radium factories in her books and magazine articles.. She also scripted a 2015 documentary, “Lake Ontario, Quest For Hope” that was broadcast on local TV. Part of that video, based on the book “Saving The Beautiful Lake” was adapted and distributed in Canada for classroom use as a short. A Natural History of Lake Ontario is available in bookstores throughout the region and can also be found on line or ordered directly from the author. Visit susanpgateley.com for more information and a link to Lake Ontario Log, on line since 1995, and to her videos.